Trade Commissioners Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1979 No. 38

REGULATION UNDER THE TRADE COMMISSIONERS ACT 19331

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Trade Commissioners Act 1933.

Dated this seventh day of March 1979.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency's Command,

J. D. ANTHONY

Minister of State for Trade and Resources

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AMENDMENT OF THE TRADE COMMISSIONERS REGULATIONS2

Allowances for living expenses on arrival at or departure from a post

After regulation 36 of the Trade Commissioners Regulations the following regulation is added:

"37. (1) A Commissioner who has to use hotel accommodation—

(a) on arrival at an overseas post prior to obtaining permanent accommodation; or

(b) at an overseas post at the end of his posting,

shall be entitled to be paid by way of allowance for the period of that use such amounts as he would be entitled to be paid if he were an officer of the Australian Public Service.

"(2) An entitlement of a Commissioner under sub-regulation (1) shall be subject to the same conditions that would be applicable to the corresponding entitlement of an officer of the Australian Public Service.

"(3) Any function that in relation to an entitlement of an officer of the Australian Public Service, referred to in sub-regulation (1), may be performed by the Public Service Board, or the Public Service Board Representative in London, may, in relation to an entitlement given by that sub-regulation, be performed by the Minister.".

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 14 March 1979.

2. Statutory Rules 1958 No. 52 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1979 No. 12 and see also